Friday, November 30, 2007

Thursday was our first meeting with our client, Izabella. It was a very productive chat. Some topics:

Izabella suggestions:

Metrics proposal: Quantity of Business values acomplished.

The system must store all the history of the task and their information.

It's very important maintain rastreability, storing the relation between tasks (i.e.: This task was splited and created these two tasks).

Videoconference and Chat capabilities to support meetings.

Dynamic zoom, showing always all tasks on the screen.

Choose Product Backlog Items that must be showed in the screen.

Another considerations:

Izabella said that the information of the Sprint progress in the main screen(taskboard) is a good idea. She also pointed that the tendency curve is a very trick thing to do, because it's hard to estimate the ending date of the in-progress tasks. One way to do that is to consider that only a part of it will be done on time. Another way is getting the history of the team and verify how many task are finished by day.

One of te topics was agile testing, this will be evaluated if we can use it in our process.

A non-linear numeric sequence can be used to estimate the time-to-solve of the task.

Some of this ideas and others showed up in a brainstorm that we have last last week. This brainstorm was part of a product design process called xdm. I hope we can post the result soon.